The Mistake In Obaseki’s Certificate Was Caused By A Photocopier – PDP Tells Tribunal

The Mistake In Obaseki’s Certificate Was Caused By A Photocopier - PDP Tells Tribunal

The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo state said the mistake and error in Godwin’s Obaseki school certificate were caused by the photocopier machine.

In a suit marked EPT/ED/GOV/01/2020, the Action Democratic Party (ADP) and Iboi Emmanuel, the party’s governorship candidate, asked the tribunal to nullify Obaseki’s election because he submitted false information to the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to enable him to run for office.

The petitioners alleged that in an affidavit deposed to and presented to INEC in his form CF001 in 2016;

“Obaseki submitted a certificate purported to have been signed by the vice-chancellor and the registrar of the university”.

“In the form EC9 submitted to INEC in 2020, Obaseki attached an un-dated certificate with only one signatory purporting to be the signature of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan,” the petitioners claimed.

“The petitioners will rely on oral and documentary evidence to show that professor Tekena Tamuno who was vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan from December 1975 to November 1979 had not only died in 2015 but could not also have signed a document purporting to be a document of the University of Ibadan after his retirement and death.”

Responding to the allegations, Adetunji Oyeyipo, PDP counsel, said: “There was a misstatement in mixing up the year of graduation with the year of admission.”

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“While filling the forms for the election in 2016, Obaseki inadvertently and mistakenly wrote 1976 in a portion of the form for the year of the graduation which was the year of his admission into the University of Ibadan.”

“At the time Obaseki was completing his form CF001 in 2016, he deposed to an affidavit stating that he had misplaced the originals of all of his certificates while changing offices with the intention to apply for a re-issuance if his certificates.”

“Subsequently, before Obaseki submitted his Form EC9 in 2020, the original certificate issued by University of Ibadan was eventually found which has the signatures of the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar of the University.”

“The original certificate was issued in A5 size; however, in order for the photocopy of the certificate to be attached to the form CF001, the size was reduced to A4 and in the process, leaving out some information on the certificate.”

 

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